Wednesday, September 16, 2009

    Microchip Puts “Cash for Clunkers” Development Tool Exchange Program in Gear

    Microchip’s Cash for Clunkers program allows embedded designers who are tired of looking at the faded paint jobs on their old tools to exchange selected models from Microchip’s competitors for a rebate as high as 30%—up to a $120 savings—on select PIC® Microcontroller, memory and analog development tools. But you’d better act fast—the program ends on October 30, 2009. Of course, Microchip will dispose of all exchanged competitor tools in an appropriate manner.
    Read the press release for more information

    Monday, September 14, 2009

    Robotics Development Kit Announced by Microchip and Digilent

    Microchip Technology today announced the availability of a PIC32 32-bit microcontroller (MCU)-based robotics development kit through Digilent Inc. The Digilent Cerebot™ 32MX4 Robotics Development Kit (part # 32MX4) comes with a free version of Microchip’s MPLAB C Compiler for PIC32 and an integrated programming/debugging circuit that is compatible with the free MPLAB® IDE.

    Read the full press release: http://bit.ly/41KLUK